Hoo...

This week was camp out week... I hope for Richard's sake and everyone else's that never happens again. Tuesday the K-2nd graders camped out, Wednesday the 3-7th graders camped out, and Thursday was a lock-in with the whole camp in the gym. Now, camping out is a good experience for a lot of the kids, but putting them in tents... *sigh* it was a bad decision for all of us. I think Richard is just going to do the lock-in next year, which will be better for him. Wednesday, I ended up falling asleep in some of those fold-up stadium chairs in the center of some of the tents because their inhabitants wouldn't stop talking! OR sassing me! And most people I know will tell you that I don't take well to being sassed. At all. I think I made that mistake once when I was a kid and my mom picked me up and popped me.

Needless to say, I only got about 2 hours of sleep. Thursday, therefore, was just about hell on earth. We went to the new World of Coke, which was totally awesome, but the boys were just as badly behaved and wore me out. Chris, my partner for this week, was really helpful, though. He can be a little goofy sometimes, but when it comes to making sure people aren't taken advantage of, Chris is right there on it. Thursday night was the lock in and it went SO much smoother than the night before! We had the girls on one side, the guys on the other, and put on a movie right at bedtime. We did get a break that afternoon-- I tried to take a nap at home and just couldn't fall asleep, but DID go buy my NEW COMPUTER!!!

I LOOOOOVE IT!

It's pretty and shiny and has amazing graphics and is convenient and almost has all my old pictures and all my music on it because in a stroke of good luck, the old computer decided to give it one more go and turned on! I'm stuffing the important things on my jump drive and transferring them directly on to the new one (aka, pictures and music).

I'll put up pictures of it tomorrow, right now I'm so engrossed in True Blood (season finale, season one) that even though I'm entirely drained from the last few days I can't seem to fall asleep! I'll also have pictures from this week up, and then Sunday I'll have pictures of Julian's 3rd birthday up!! I'm so excited-- he's such a sweetie, and he's going to be my ringbearer. We'll have to make a special pillow, though, unless he loses his affinity for rings; last time I was over, he took Meg's wedding band (one of the reasons they just got cheap-o Target bands!) and started playing hide and seek with it, put it in the baby seat and we had to turn the thing upside down and take the liner out to get the ring back! It was pretty hilarious. I think he and Ana will make quite an amusing little pair!

Alright, we're about to finale on the finale and I'm about done with my water quota for the day, so I'll wrap it up.

Ciao!

PS- Richard walked on my back a couple days ago and popped that nasty little bugger back in to place!! There's still a little bit of stretching to do, but it feels soooooo much better!

Ouch

My computer has finally bitten the dust for good, I think, and my shoulder is KILLING me. I mean, seriously, I haven't been in this much pain in a looooong time. I'm using mom's Mac for a couple hours a day to check email and stuff, but otherwise I'm out until I get the new one (which will hopefully happen this week) from Best Buy-- I'm really excited, it's an incredibly nice Sony Vaio for under $700!

Anyway, more later, just wanted to let you know.

ciao,

M